How To Use Unease In A Sentence

There is a great deal of public unease. Times, Sunday Times
Flashback sequences, talking dogs and stuttering pictures add to the general air of unease which the film carries.
Lia could feel a familiar weight reside within her chest, an overwhelming sense of unease overcoming her.
They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.

He felt a curious mixture of elation and unease.
O'Driscoll does a great job of sketching out the characters, their relationships and filling their miserable lives with the kind of dread and unease that you can almost taste at the back of your tongue but when it comes time to move this story out of 'grim social realism' and into 'Horror' it all rather falls apart amidst random snowmen, which is a real pity as up until that ending, the story was going great guns. REVIEW: Black Static #16
Growing unease at the prospect of an election is causing fierce arguments within the party.
For just a moment Silver felt a prickle of unease about her choice of this man, but it was too late for doubts now.
I know little of my family's roots, a fact that causes a nagging sense of unease.
Bond yields have been under pressure around the world, reflecting unease about the health of the global economy. Times, Sunday Times
By challenging the need for contact between the two sexes, Greek myths of the fifth and fourth centuries bc express unease about the need for women as a means to continue the human race.
There is a growing sense of unease - if not yet the type of fear older readers experienced back in the Cold War.
There is a deep sense of unease about the future. The Times Literary Supplement
Nevertheless, I admired Mandeville's skill for, as he questioned, I caught the unease of some of them.
Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. Political Resonance
Scientists even begin to express openly their discontent with and unease over the reigning paradigm.
Interestingly, what makes the movie work is precisely that it does (I assume deliberately) seem creepy at the outset: The director wants your initial response to be a certain unease, if not revulsion. Of Human Bondage
On such occasions my unease has been all the more apparent because these unordained ministers do not share it.
Does this swaggering rock front man suffer from the same moment of unease? Times, Sunday Times
In the meantime, I found an interesting story that claims a scientific explanation for ghostly events and feelings of unease - infrasound.
He was unable to hide his unease at the way the situation was developing.
Abbott's writing style evokes unease from the start, which makes for a tense and intriguing read. Panic: Summary and book reviews of Panic by Jeff Abbott.
Anyone who has ever come home to the sick feeling of being broken into will know that this is a crime that can cause lasting upset and unease.
A ripple of excitement/unease/etc. flowed up her spine.
The party has not tried to disguise its new deregulatory approach, which is causing unease among party radicals.
Companies have already expressed their unease at the effective demotion of trade promotion. Times, Sunday Times
A deep sense of unease was felt across much of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Again the drone of the plane seemed to echo a deeper unease, which again came to the surface of her mind.
And Russia has only itself to blame if its neighbours feel a lingering unease about its policies and intentions. The Times Literary Supplement
Serving soldiers expressed unease at mixing regulars and reserves. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly the way one charity has monopolised town hall bookings through an agent leaves us with a feeling of unease.
As she finished cracking the safe, she glanced around the office, still fighting back the feeling of unease.
Because the stronger our sense of self-centredness the greater is our unease, whereas the more we are concerned about others, the more secure we feel. Shantideva's Wisdom Chapter
A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
Their unease was made worse by the sparkling little jinks of the Jed Kiwi Yule, who very nearly went clear to the line.
He lived in a hovel of an apartment, sold illegal software, hacked systems, and nursed a feeling of unease.
Shame is that sense of unease at the heart of our being. Christianity Today
We have the opportunity to harness the potential of new science and technology for the good of all but there is understandable public unease about the rapid introduction of new technologies and their regulation.
The initial adrenaline rush of this protest has faded, to be replaced by a growing sense of unease.
Or, in the case of English-speaking principals, the unease of wondering whether you both understood the same thing. DEATH IN FASHION
His dramatic compositions of bridge pilings, freeway foundations and steel frameworks are as calmly sculpturesque as a Greek Kouri yet still create a sense of unease.
Unease slides through my brain like an oily knife blade.
As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.
And yet from his twenties to his forties he felt a deep unease that became worse with time. Times, Sunday Times
The prospect of big tobacco firms making money from the health service is likely to cause unease. Times, Sunday Times
It's left mostly to the actors to bring the premise to life, recreating the piffling small talk, self-congratulation and unease that are the chump change of real-life social intercourse.
The equivocal mood produces a vague (but not dangerous) unease.
But public unease means these savings are unlikely to be realised. Times, Sunday Times
I notice with unease that the sleeves of the beige sweatshirt are smeared with blood.
It's almost as if we experience an unease, a dislocation, because our freedom to move somewhere else is temporarily suspended.
He is far from alone in voicing unease at the nation's most popular pastime. Times, Sunday Times
There will be sounds, composed by Jony Easterby, designed to induce fear and unease.
This wasn't the most pleasant way to begin a grueling, accusatory interview, but Jacobs' unease made sense for the obvious reasons.
And to revisit the pubs I used to drink in when I was his age merely accentuated that sense of unease.
There is a feeling of unease about what has happened that goes beyond policy disagreements.
If he seems a bit stolid throughout, that could be the military man's unease in mufti; it certainly helps make his credulousness credible.
There was a certain amount of unease between them.
Sensing my unease about the afternoon ahead, he told me,"These men are pretty easy to talk to.".
Despite growing unease, more refined procedures such as cingulotomies were developed and the modern era of psychosurgery was born. Times, Sunday Times
Newspaper columnists and political talk-shows reflect a tone of self-doubt and unease about the conduct of the war to date.
And it is this feeling of unease that carries the gallerygoer forward. Times, Sunday Times
Tan explores growing unease about the power of brands and of corporate juggernauts.
The sandglass remembers the time we lost. The hourglass forget, we broken unease.
There was a growing unease about their involvement in the war.
As well as sharing fears about unflavoured bread, and a general unease with fish, choux pastry really scares me. Chopped vegetable, watermelon and feta salad | smitten kitchen
How many of you have read a blog that: crystallises lots of thoughts and questions and uneases that have been whirling round in your head, makes you think eureka!
I waited with growing unease for her return.
And the ever-present clown, but this clown resembles a Parisian clochard/street person whose attitude does not evoke sympathy or empathy — just a sense of unease; not unlike the unease that is created by four men with two invisible trampolines separated by an enormous wall that they keep landing on top of, only to be airborne again in one direction or the other. Buzzine » Cirque Berzerk!
What he wants to do is send you to bed with ice water sluicing down your nape and a knot of unease in your gut.
There are very few people who do not look back to the past with a sense of longing or forward to the future with a sense of unease.
He has emerged from a period of unease about your and Julia's brief and palaeolithically distant college relationship to become a trusted friend.
A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen. Decoding Your Destiny
A report this week by Barclays Capital analysts concluded that current European rules for calculating risk weightings of assets "leave considerable scope for subjectivity" and give investors reason for "unease over the calculations. Details Given on EU 'Stress Tests'
For him, it was the unease of the open door, the increased coolness of his dwelling as heat from the hearth was drawn away into the depthless darkness, and the relentless, renewed struggle against hated memories.
Scratch that, great music -- because this one strikes the right balance of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot's" experimentalism, "Sky Blue Sky's" mellow vibe and the unease that permeated "Summer Teeth. The Daily Times News Headlines
It is not just talking about death that fills us with a sense of unease. Times, Sunday Times
As they here suggest, unease over who moves the planchette is at the heart of the Ouija Board experience.
They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
Any unease expressed by the parents or the other students is clearly secondary next to the transgendered student's basic human rights and liberties.
My initial phone call enquiring about whether Curatola sits on the Medical Center board, and, if so, whether his remarks on Huckabee's show reflect the opinion of the board, was met with courtesy but apparent unease. News Hounds
Only those fools who cleave to the dread phrase "living in the moment" can avoid the waves or pin-pricks – it's a personality thing of unease that vex most of us. I'd be much happier if people stopped asking if I was happy | Rachel Cooke
But unease with the term "feminism" has been a persistent concern in the feminist movement, whether the unease is attributed to racial divisions or to residual resistance to feminist ideals. Feminism's Identity Crisis
There is a deep sense of unease about the future. The Times Literary Supplement
Behind the mocking laughter lurks a growing sense of unease.
There is a deep sense of unease about the future. The Times Literary Supplement
A frown touched her brow to recall the feeling of unease that had gripped her during that brief conversation.
As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.
Despite deep unease within the regime about his taste for confrontation, the chances are that he will. Times, Sunday Times
The prospect of big tobacco firms making money from the health service is likely to cause unease. Times, Sunday Times
Both reader and character are united in unease at Kindersley's plot machinations.
It was more a niggling sense of unease. Times, Sunday Times
He was unable to hide his unease at the way the situation was developing.
However the incident has caused a great deal of concern and unease in the area.
He has an eye for niggling little details that add up to an air of unease and the sense that you are never too sure what might happen next.
It is worth looking more closely at the mainsprings of this unease.
Venezuelans love their morning cup of coffee and there was growing unease among office workers yesterday that their daily shot of espresso or cappuccino might soon be unavailable.
The polling appears to reflect deepening public unease about the economy. Times, Sunday Times
There will certainly be patients unable to express their unease, and what of their rights? Times, Sunday Times
Mired in the humanistic belief that someone must be pushing the planchette, our unease grows as we cannot pin down the culprit.
Growing unease at the prospect of an election is causing fierce arguments within the party.
Feelings evoked are mainly of foreboding, unease, or of suspension, floating.
There is already unease about perpetual consumption being vaguely environmentally unfriendly, but it has got a long way to go. Times, Sunday Times
More intriguing was the unease she detected, the aimlessness his hustling and exuberance did not disguise. O: A Presidential Novel
Instead, he has had to stage impromptu press conferences to cope with a growing unease about how he would honour all the promissory notes he has been issuing in open-handed Texas style.
The teachers were unhappy about the situation and shared the unease of parents in relation to the matter.
Does this swaggering rock front man suffer from the same moment of unease? Times, Sunday Times
A further cause for unease is that adherence to a free market philosophy combined with reduced taxation has increased economic inequality.
That they break these promises with nary a moment’s unease is a truly shocking thing. Archive 2007-09-16
Even so, it has left me with a sense of unease about waste, especially in this industry where extravagance is so normal.
Its quite likely the financial costs would have been more containable and the company would not have lost touch with how public unease was slowly growing about its actions.
But show chiefs would be sensible to heed public unease over what happened to Ceri. The Sun
And how can we not feel some unease and regret at this passing? The Times Literary Supplement
You were noisy and abusive, calling your girlfriend a bitch and a tart, and you caused great unease among the other passengers in the confined space of the aircraft.
A shiver of unease ran through the audience.
But the call did at least dispel the vapour of unease that clung to the dispersal hut in the hours before action. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
This is a film that knows exactly what it is doing from the opening frames as the music and titles establish a sense of dread and unease.
My unease comes from the similarity of the lineup -- all of the books honored this year are middle grade realistic fiction about girls. I just want to say this one thing about the Newbery
He faces growing unease among the Democrats about the likelihood of war.
He looked in vain for the source of his unease.
I hid sharp unease behind the cream sponge and sugar tongs.
Jack slowed as he approached her, his skin prickling with unease.
There is a deep sense of unease about the future. The Times Literary Supplement
But some Tories on the modernising wing of the party feel deep unease at the plans. Times, Sunday Times
At this early stage in AEC adoption of Web 2.0, few software vendors have emerged with marketing/PR budgets big enough to justify involvement, the effects of the recession are still being felt, and ongoing unease about Web 2.0 (see 2. above) may limit some corporate enthusiasm. Web 2.0 construction computing awards, anyone? « pwcom 2.0
The unease is not restricted to the desperately poor, swampy country of 10m people.
He lived in a hovel of an apartment, sold illegal software, hacked systems, and nursed a feeling of unease.
They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
Sensing my unease about the afternoon ahead, he told me,"These men are pretty easy to talk to.".
It continues to be a source of concern and unease for much of the nation.
I don't mean only to myself; it's frequently obvious that my charm exhausts and bewilders others, even as they depend upon it to mortar crevices in the social facade -- to fill vacant seats, give air to suffocating silences, fudge unease. The Reading Experience
We left with a deep sense of unease, because we knew something was being hidden from us.
In this atmosphere the approaching memorial day arouses feelings of unease, more than anything else.
On the other hand, there is still a very real cynicism, unease and basic incomprehension which prevents complete acceptance.
Does this swaggering rock front man suffer from the same moment of unease? Times, Sunday Times
The parish council has also voiced its unease at more houses in the village and wants the area for community use.
And there right of cancellation given of right to plea of unease traditionally.
While getting rid of a lady-of-the-night might avoid a storm (even at the cost of killing her) a great storm was seen by the upper crust as nature's unease at the death of a leading citizen.
There has been considerable disquiet and unease since the news broke in September that the Patrician Brothers were closing the school.
From under the dark, dried porch roof, we are watched with unease by two old black men.
He flew to a military base to shore up his support in the face of unfavourable polls and growing unease in Washington about the conflict.
I was ushered into it by Zelim, whose newfound politeness did nothing to sooth my unease at his presence. GALILEE
Behind the mocking laughter lurks a growing sense of unease.
Some readers may feel a prickling of unease at the possibility that the pleasant laxity of modern mores—in language, dress and eating habits—might contribute to a flabbiness of will on bigger matters. The Will in the World
At last, I lost command of myself, for my heart was aflame with fire unquenchable and lowe unconcealable and I said, “O young men, will ye not relieve my trouble and acquaint me with the reason of thus blackening your faces and the meaning of your words: — We were sitting at our ease but our frowardness brought us unease?” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This wasn't the most pleasant way to begin a grueling, accusatory interview, but Jacobs' unease made sense for the obvious reasons.
Thus there are very few people who do not look back to the past with a sense of longing or forward to the future with a sense of unease.
These are serious questions and Airedale line commuters can be forgiven for a sense of unease.
I felt a certain unease about it. Times, Sunday Times
They had also failed to grasp public unease about the growing pressure on jobs and public services. Times, Sunday Times
He is a resolute 'classicist' in many ways, expressing his unease about Rilke to Maria von Wedemeyer when she shares her enthusiasm; Rilke is 'unhealthy', a diagnostician of the darker, more flawed and ambiguous regions of the spirit (yet he admired at least some of Dostoevsky). Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Archbishop's Speech to the International Bonhoeffer Congress, Poland
Now a whole passel of them — Landrieu, Bayh, Lincoln, Lieberman, Pryor, Begich, Nelson, McCaskill — have expressed varying levels of unease with the idea. Matthew Yglesias » House Progressives Willing to Back Modified Senate Bill, Centrist Senators Resume Customary Posture as Villains
His feeling of unease is shared by the audience for the entire film. Affleck directs challenging, moody “Gone Baby Gone” » Scene-Stealers
His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
He expressed his profound unease that the Review might have "damaging and lasting' effects upon the surface fleet. ONE HUNDRED DAYS
Many instead express their unease by voting for motions that will be ignored by the coalition. Times, Sunday Times
A presentiment of unease enveloped me before I could find my seat at the rear of the plane.
Lia wished the thing he had given her would just vibrate; a feeling of unease rested in the pit of her stomach.
I get this incredible sense of unease at not being able to complete everything.
These forms of unease are familiar once we have encountered the problem of free will through the hypothesis of determinism.
Owen gazed at the nearly hairless groin before him with a vague sense of unease. EVERVILLE
She has ignored the sense of anger and unease that many people feel at high premiums.
Sometimes once the reason for my stress/unease is pointed out to me, I feel much better. Monday Musings
He's had a nightlight for a few months now - we gave in to his growing unease of being in the dark.
OK, it is hard to completely avoid a sense of gnawing unease.
For example, I share his concern about the implications of the idea of God's omnipotence for theodicy, and also his unease with a radical separation of God and nature.
The result of unease elsewhere in the country means that bargain hunters can pick up good lastminute deals. Times, Sunday Times
A tremor of unease went through her husband, ‘You remember him.’
One could consider this a contrapuntal jeu d' esprit, with rapid lines of imitation and stretto, but for its character of psychological unease.
Instead, he has had to stage impromptu press conferences to cope with a growing unease about how he would honour all the promissory notes he has been issuing in open-handed Texas style.
He could sense it the way a dog anticipates an eclipse, how it runs from room to room looking for the source of its unease, how it cowers as the sky clenches and implodes and darkness fills the room.
He wondered how much of his current unease was due to the forces that had been set in motion by the Letter. BALANCE OF POWER
But this success has been accompanied by a growing, widespread unease about how the money is being shared out. Times, Sunday Times
He flew to a military base to shore up his support in the face of unfavourable polls and growing unease in Washington about the conflict.
Notice if there are feelings of pleasure and excitement, or guilt and unease about the idea of eating it. Times, Sunday Times
The president's lenience will exacerbate unease among minorities and probably also damage his standing with the moderate mainstream majority. Sentences in Indonesian Killings Draw Criticism
This echoed a national unease at lowering complicated inter-provincial trade barriers which would upset thousands of special interest groups throughout the country.
Sensing my unease about the afternoon ahead, he told me,"These men are pretty easy to talk to.".
At the top of the marquee, Hugh himself experienced a smidgen of unease. JUST BETWEEN US
I am told that tonight on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer:, the reputationally hawkish Congresswoman and national intelligence expert Jane Harman talks about the growing unease among Congresssional democrats about what is happening in Afghanistan. Steve Clemons: Afghanistan and Health Care Making Democratic Disharmony Structural
The psychic unease that Faulkner weaves into Quentin's obsession with the girl foreshadows an ill-omened conclusion.
In the same way that a messy room can make you feel exhausted just looking at it, a cluttered garden instils a sense of unease.
One could consider this a contrapuntal jeu d' esprit, with rapid lines of imitation and stretto, but for its character of psychological unease.
But there's endless unease about species improvement by genetic makeovers.
Comments on the band from poll participants reflect on the general unease regarding the band's future.
Charles said easily, his expression belying none of his unease. Exit the Actress
Then all the young men tucked up their sleeves to the elbows and fell a-weeping and wailing and they blackened their faces and smeared their clothes and buffeted their brows and beat their breasts, continually exclaiming, ‘We were sitting at our ease, but our frowardness brought us unease!’
He faces growing unease among the Democrats about the likelihood of war.
But, if so, what according to him is the true significance of the kind of unease or disquiet to which he refers?
There is already unease about perpetual consumption being vaguely environmentally unfriendly, but it has got a long way to go. Times, Sunday Times
He was unable to hide his unease at the way the situation was developing.
The artist began to feel a general unease as things that happened and things he saw seemed to be signs and portents of some great event.
His meditative films reflected an unease with the modern world and a feeling of malaise in western society.
Rangers' unease showed in an untidy passage of play which again incurred the wrath of the home support.
Although more comical than anything else, it also produces a sense of unease in the audience.
His unease was intensified by the images made available by the new technologies of fetoscopy and ultrasound. NYT > Home Page
Sensing my unease about the afternoon ahead, he told me,"These men are pretty easy to talk to.".
I was ushered into it by Zelim, whose newfound politeness did nothing to sooth my unease at his presence. GALILEE
I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
I smiled to hide my unease.

How To Use Unease In A Sentence

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